Unit 13. Films and cinema

Class: 10A2
Unit 13: Films and Cinema
Look at these pictures and guess the films
Madagascar
avatar
titanic
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Cánh đồng hoang
Match each of the films to its kind.
Before you read:
1 - d
2 - c
3 - a
4 - b
Discover [dis`kʌvə] (v)
Ex: Scientists are working to discover a cure to AIDS.
Sequence [`si:kwəns] (n)
Motion [`mou∫n] (n)
Movement [`mu:vmənt] (n)
Decade [`dekeid] (n)
Rapidly [`ræpidli] (adv)
Existence [ig`zistəns] (n)
Character [`kæriktə] (n)
Spread [spred] (v)
Ex: The bird spread his wings.


I. Vocabulary:
khám phá, tìm ra
chuỗi, dãy
sự vận động
sự chuyển động
thập kỷ
một cách nhanh chóng
sự tồn tại, hiện hữu
nhân vật
lan rộng, trải ra
While you read
Question: How has the cinema developed?
Task 1: Match the words to the definitions
1 - d
2 - e
3 - b
4 - f
5 - c
6 - a
Task 2: Read the text and decide whether the following statements are True or False
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1. When did the history of the cinema begin?
2. What did scientists discover at that time?
3. Did films in the early days have sound?
4. When were audiences able to see long films?
5. When was sound introduced?
6. What form of films appeared as the old silent films were being replaced by spoken ones?
Task 3: Work in pairs and answer these questions.
1. The history of cinema began in the early 19th century. (line 1)
2. At that time scientists discovered that when a sequence of still pictures were set in motion, they could give the feeling of movement. (line 2-3 )
3. No, they didn’t. (line 5,lines 13-15: the early films were no more than moving photographs and it was not until the end of 1920 that sound was introduced )
4. In the early 1910s, audiences were able to see long films. (line 9 )
5. At the end of the 1920s, sound was introduced. (line 14)
6. It is the musical cinema . (line 15 )



Answers:
A. The Story of a Film Maker
B. A Brief History of Cinema
C. The History of the Film Industry
Task 4: decide the best title for the passage.
After
you
read
19th century
The cinema began in the early 19th century
1905
By 1905, films were about 5 or 10 minutes long.
1910s
In the early 1910s, audiences were able to enjoy the first long films.
1915
The cinema really became an industry in 1915
1920s
Sound was introduced at the end of the 1920s
Work in groups and talk about the passage using the cues below
Thanks for your attention